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Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections 2014

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Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections

September 22-23, 2014
Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The DSA meeting brings together technical and industry experts; LC IT and subject matter experts; government specialists with an interest in preservation; decision-makers from a wide range of organizations with digital preservation requirements; and recognized authorities and practitioners of digital preservation.

Background Reading for Attendees (96 Kb PDF)

Agenda

DAY 1 – Monday September 22, 2014

8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee and refreshments
9:00 – 9:15 Opening / Welcome
9:15 – 9:50 Technology Overview-1
  • Carl Watts - Library of Congress, "LC Storage Environment" (1.78 Mb PDF)
  • Scott Rife - Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, "Archive Storage Infrastructure at the Library of Congress" (746 Kb PDF)
  • Henry Newman - Instrumental, Inc., "State of the Industry" (23 Kb PDF)
9:50-10:05 Break
10:05-10:45 Technology Overview-2
  • Dave Anderson -Seagate, "An Infrastructure for Objects" (1.03 Kb PDF)
  • Robert Fontana - IBM, "Volumetric Density Trends (TB/in³): Tape, HDD, NAND FLASH, Blu-Ray" (1.51 Mb PDF)
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Community Presentations – Part 1
  • Ben Fino-Radin - Museum of Modern Art, "Digital Collections Storage Infrastructure" (5.27 MB PDF)
  • Leslie Johnston - National Archives and Records Administration, "Identifying Requirements for an Electronic Records Processing Environment" (148 Kb PDF)
  • Ethan Miller - University of California, Santa Cruz, "An Economic Perspective of Disk vs. Flash Media in Archival Storage" (2.31 Mb PDF)
  • Kestutis Patiejunas - Facebook, "Freezing Exabytes of Data
    at Facebook’s Cold Storage" (2.41 Mb PDF)
12:00-1:00 Lunch time presentation
  • Trevor Owens - Library of Congress, "NDSA Storage Survey and NDSA Levels of Preservation" (187 Kb PDF)
1:00-2:15 Object Storage: Updates
  • Henry Newman - Instrumental, Inc., "Object Storage Developments" (20 Kb PDF)
  • David Anderson - Seagate, "Introduction to Kinetic Key Value Storage" (2.41 Mb PDF)
  • Sage Weil - Ceph, "Digital Preservation with Open Source" (149 Kb PDF)
  • Chris MacGown - Piston Cloud, "Object Storage: An update in brief." (185 Kb PDF)
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-4:00 Testing and Migrating at Scale:
  • Jason Alt - National Center for Supercomputing Applications, "Testing at Scale" (620 Kb PDF)
  • Jason Hick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory NERSC Storage Systems Group, "Migrating Archives at Scale" (396 Kb PDF)
  • Cynthia Wu- National Library of New Zealand, "Storage Architecture and Challenges at the National Library of New Zealand" (908 Kb PDF)
4:15-5:00 Community Presentations – Part 2
  • Ethan Miller - University of California, Santa Cruz, "An Alternative to Fixed-Key Based Pre-Indexing" (1.83 Mb PDF)
  • Michele Kimpton - DuraSpace, "DuraCloud:Archiving and preserving in the cloud, challenges and benefits " (2.69 Mb PDF)
  • Kara Van Malssen - AVPreserve, "Cost of Inaction Calculator" (1.51 Mb PDF)
  • Steve Elliot- Amazon Web Services, "Public Sector Storage Trends using Amazon Web Services" (412 Kb PDF)
5:00 Close-out Day 1

Day 2, Tuesday September 23, 2014

8:30 – 9:00 Registration, coffee and refreshments
9:00 – 9:05 Review Day 1
9:05-10:00

Storage Management: Updates on Media

  • Eric Breitung - Library of Congress, "Rapid Non‐destructive Identification of Degraded Magnetic Tape" (1.50 Mb PDF)
  • Greg Pine - Cuneiform, "Preservation Matters " (1.31 Mb PDF)
  • Ken Wood - Hitachi Data Systems
  • Doug Hansen- Millenniata, "Long-term Data Preservation Media" (6.17 Mb PDF)
10:00 – 10:20 Morning Break
10:20-10:45 David Rosenthal - Stanford University, "Technology Overview: Challenge to the Storage Industry" (blog post)
10:45 – 11:15 Future of Storage: Predictions for 2015-2018
  • Henry Newman - Instrumental, Inc., "Predictions 2015 and Beyond" (24 Kb PDF)
  • David Rosenthal - Stanford University, "Predictions: 2015-2020 " (1.31 Mb PDF)
  • Dave Anderson -Seagate (no slides)
  • Robert Fontana - IBM, "Trends" (141 Kb PDF)
  • Carl Watts - Library of Congress, "Predictions" (3.14 Mb PDF)
11:15-12:00 Wrap-up/Meeting Summary

 

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